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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

Sudden disappearance brought artist to Liverpool from Hong Kong

A sudden thought brought a young artist to Liverpool from Hong Kong to honour thousands of men who disappeared from the city one year.

Yarli Allison, 33, was researching in a British colonial prison in Hong Kong when they realised the strength of links between China and Britain, particularly Liverpool where thousands of Chinese seamen and their families lived.

But Yarli was shocked to learn that in 1946, thousands of Chinese men, many of whom served in the Allied war effort, were deported from Liverpool at the orders of the British government.

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